grail
/ɡɹeɪl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.46 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The Holy Grail.
noun
A book of offices in the Roman Catholic Church; a gradual.
name
Initialism of Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory.
Example Sentences
- "The quest for the Grail is not archeology. It's a race against evil. If it is captured by the Nazis, the armies of darkness will march all over the face of the earth. Do you understand me?"
- "Becoming an astronaut was his grail."
- "How many of them had found the item they dreamt of, their personal grails?"
- "antiphonals, missals, grails, processionals, etc."
- "Hereof this gentle knight vnweeting was, / And lying downe vpon the sandie graile, / Drunke of the streame, as cleare as cristall glas [...]."
Etymology
From Middle English graal, greal, from Old French graal, greal (“cup”), from Medieval Latin gradalis, possibly corrupted over time from Latin crater (“bowl”).